5th Framework: IST-1999-10664

SCALE

Internet-based intelligent tool to Support Collaborative Argumentation-based Learning in secondary schools

The project aims to develop a Website containing chatrooms and other tools which support the teaching of argumentation within secondary schools within and between EU member countries. The interface would be in several EU languages, would be exciting and challenging, and would enable the child feedback on the evaluation of the strength and relevance of argumentation either as divergence from teacher- supplied models and/or from standards of internal consistency and relevance. The software would decompose the dialogue into argumentation elements (claims, evidence, inference rules etc) and show these in a diagram, which the child could work on directly also, and which the software could linearise into final, essay form, demonstrating to the child the transparent relationship between non linear argument diagram and linear argumentative essay.